Zoe Young is a fiction writer and playwright living in San Francisco. Her fiction and journalism has been published in McSweeney's quarterly, Downbeat Magazine, the Oakland Tribune, the Bold Italic, and Poets Reading the News. She Received her MFA from California College of the Arts. Her works of theater have been produced at Berkeley Rep, and multiple San Francisco Venues. She currently teaches playwriting at Berkeley City College and writes for The Nature Conservancy in California.